{"slug": "hudson-s-bay-company", "label": "Hudson's Bay Company", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76039", "qid": "Q76039", "description": "Canadian retail business group, former fur trading business", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1669, 1870], "span_label": ["1669 CE", "1870 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ontario", "label": "Ontario", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hudson-bay", "label": "Hudson Bay", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alberta", "label": "Alberta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "montreal", "label": "Montreal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nine-years-war", "label": "Nine Years' War", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 9", "text": "October 9 – The English ship Nonsuch returns to London with the first products acquired from trade around Canada's Hudson Bay, a cargo of fine furs. The bounty from the Nonsuch expedition attracts investors for the soon-to-be-chartered Hudson's Bay Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366419040#October–December", "title": "1669", "revid": 1366419040, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – The Hudson's Bay Company is granted a royal charter in England with the jurisdiction to control administration and commerce in \"Rupert's Land\", governed for the crown by Rupert, Duke of Cumberland, the cousin of King Charles II. The land is a 1.5 million square mile area of what is now Canada around Hudson Bay. The area controlled covers all of the modern province of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, and significant portions of Alberta and Nunavut, as well as parts of what are now Ontario and Quebec, and parts of the U.S. states of Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#April–June", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – French Canadian soldiers on the Hudson Bay expedition capture the first of the British Hudson's Bay Company outposts, with the surrender the unarmed inhabitants of the fortress at Moose Factory, Ontario.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#April–June", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – A group of 107 French Canadian soldiers, under the command of Pierre de Troyes, begins the Hudson Bay expedition, departing from Montreal on an 800 mi journey to take control of the properties of British North American settlers of the Hudson's Bay Company. The group marches for 82 days and arrives at the first Hudson's Bay fort, at Moose Factory on June 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#January–March", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1697, "year_label": "1697 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 (August 25 O.S.) – During the Nine Years' War, the Battle of Hudson's Bay is fought between English and French ships in Hudson Bay near what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba; The French warship Pélican captures York Factory, a trading post of the English Hudson's Bay Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355431044#July–September", "title": "1697", "revid": 1355431044, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – The Battle of Fort Albany, an attack by 100 French colonial volunteers and Cree natives on the British Hudson's Bay Company outpost at Fort Albany on Hudson Bay. John Fullartine, commander of the post, leads a successful defense of the fort and 18 of the attackers are killed and then retreat. The site becomes part of a Cree First Nation reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#April–June", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed; the city of Edmonton, Alberta, eventually grows from it.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352627752#Undated", "title": "1795", "revid": 1352627752, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 19", "text": "June 19 – Battle of Seven Oaks: The Hudson's Bay Company is defeated by the North West Company, near Winnipeg, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363267979#April–June", "title": "1816", "revid": 1363267979, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#Date_unknown", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1869, "year_label": "1869 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – The Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada, under its letters patent, back to the British Crown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360511845#November", "title": "1869", "revid": 1360511845, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – The British government admits the former Hudson's Bay Company territory of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#July", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › July"}}]}